 | Julia Kavanagh - 1862 - 352 стор.
...preface to a second edition the author informed the public that the " Castle of Otranto " was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern; and, expatiating on this theme , he laid bare his mode of action, explaining, at some length, his plan... | |
 | 1879 - 612 стор.
...correctly appreciated the condition of the public taste — ' The tale,' he says, ' was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, aiid sometimes has been, copied with success. Invention has not been wanting ; but the great resources... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1883 - 448 стор.
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of Romance, the ancient and...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species Nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been... | |
 | Elizabeth Haven Appleton - 1891 - 284 стор.
...to be a feeble attempt at delineation of character — in Walpole's case a following out of his plan to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. To finish with Mrs. RadclifTe. There are some peculiarities about her life. In the f1rst place, she... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 стор.
...in every kind of prodigy was . . . established in those dark ages." " It was an attempt," he said, " to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life." The remainder of the preface is occupied with a defense of Shakspere, who had been attacked by Voltaire... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 стор.
...Belief in every kind of prodigy was . . . established in those dark ages." "It was an attempt," he said, "to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life." The remainder of the preface is occupied with a defense of Shakspere, who had been attacked by Voltaire... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 стор.
...Belief in every kind of prodigy was . . . established in those dark ages." "It was an attempt," he said, "to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life." The remainder of the preface is occupied with a defense of Shakspere, who had been attacked by Voltaire... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 236 стор.
...begged the public's pardon for pretending that the book was a translation. "It was an attempt," he said, "to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was f imagination and improbability ; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 600 стор.
...kind. In the former kind, he observes, all was imagination and improbability ; while in the latter ' the great resources of fancy have been dammed up by a strict adherence to common life.' His own simple rule was Nature, even in ' the deportment of servants.' ' I am content,' writes Walpole... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 322 стор.
...decorated his toy Gothic mansion. Fifty years before the success of Scott, the attempt was here made " to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern," to reintroduce, that is, the greatest possible freedom of invention, and to give full rein to fancy... | |
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It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was imagination and improbability ; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has been, copied with success. Invention has not been... 
